Countdown: Indicting Julian Assange
PATRICE GREANVILLE Dateline December 11, 2010 [print_link]
The switch became even clearer on Dec. 10, when Keith dropped the other shoe by coming out straightforwardly on Assange’s side, featuring two supporters of WikiLeaks, Daniel Ellsberg (left), of Pentagon Papers fame, and —of all people—Ron Paul (below), who was shown giving an impassioned and eloquent speech in defense of Assange and the value to the nation and the world of transparency in government, especially when issues of war and peace are on the balance. (See clip above) Like many Libertarians, Paul is firmly against wars and foreign adventures, judging them erroneously (in our view) as products of “corporatism” and not “real capitalism”—whatever that may be. (This is a false distinction common among libertarians, a notion probably stemming from their stubborn ahistoricism—they fail to accept the fact that in time, when left to its own devices, the logic and dynamic of market competition spawns firms that are both oligopolistic in size and multinational in scope of operations, a fact that inevitably ends up involving the capitalist-controlled state to do their bidding. If it sounds familiar it’s because that’s precisely the history of all capitalist evolutions, including our own.)
Take your objectivity and shove it
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